CAPTAIN DUSIS
By: oONekomataOo
Disclaimer: Not owning anything, that's me.
Warnings: uh…a little shonen-ai later, maybe. And OOCness. Mwa ha ha!
Neko: Okay, I've had three cans of Mountain Dew and half a carton of ice cream…it's Captain Dusis writin' time!
-------Response to Reviewers-------
Neko: Whoa. That was taken much better than I thought…
Oh and as a sidenote, don't take offense if I use a different variant on character names than you. (ex: Thatz – Thats, Bierrez – Viaresu) I just use whatever works best in English or whatever I think of at the time.
xxDKGurlxx – Ha ha I liked Thatz's little flashback best, and yeah I can't believe he would've tossed DNAngel either. Maybe he's got a grudge against Dark…lol Don't let Thatz and Dark get to ya, if you picked up Dragon Knights and DNAngel, you're doing something right :)
Hiranieas – I'm glad you liked it! Rune's was my second favorite of the crazy flashbacks. I originally didn't even have the Selkie thing in my rough, but added it when I put in Nohiro. Heh, just couldn't resist it.
Sango the demon exterminator – Thanks! I've got Kai-stern in this chappie and wrote Nadil into an upcoming one. I'm still trying to figure out how to get the other three dragon officers in this messed up thing.
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Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'
Hope Island was a beautiful place located at the center of the world. It went by largely untouched by anyone for thousands of years, so its wildlife thrived in a gorgeous natural habitat. An essence to Dusis, this moderately large island's beauty was comparable to Eden's, much to the joy of its caretakers. Or most of them at least.
Living on this island since the dawn of time, were two ancient beings deeply tied with the planet and its inhabitants. Hope Island was the place that The Great Kai-stern and his sister The Star Princess called home. It was also the only place in all of Dusis that the two deities could take on a tangible form.
The Star Princess was your typical young and soft-spoken, willowy beauty. She loved the planet more than anything else, and always did her part to take care of it. The Star Princess spent most of her day watching various places all over the world on her Planet-Vision—a large crystalline device capable of instantly viewing any location on the planet and seeing into the future. At one point, she had used a crystal ball, but her brother The Great Kai-stern had accidentally broken it when he had believed it to be a genetically-engineered killer hamster mutant after his nose during one of his drunken episodes. When she wasn't watching Oprah, The Star Princess enjoyed playing with the friendly animals of the island, or talking with the Dragonteers if they weren't on a mission. Her brother was a different story.
The Great Kai-stern was originally a valiant spokesman for the planet, and made sure that when the primitive humans were about to do something stupid to Dusis, his voice was heard. The humans would tremble in his wake and never fail to obey his word. Then alcohol was invented. Now The Great Kai-stern was essentially a college boy on a permanent Spring Break. But loveable nonetheless.
As different as they may be, the duo of eco-deities shared a common weakness—the planet's pain. Whenever some idiot in Glaciosa dumped toxic waste into a duck pond, they felt it. Whenever a group of misled morons in Kainaldia attempted to summon an ancient demon and blew up half a forest and a population in the process, they felt it. And of course, whenever some dork pulled the Do Not Remove tag off a pillow and threw it out a window…it burned like a bitch. This was why they created the rings to summon Captain Dusis and recruited the Dragonteers. Which they still relied on to this day; as they anxiously waited for a stronger version of Aspirin to come out.
"Brother, look!" cried The Star Princess. "The Dragonteers have returned!"
"My booze!" beamed The Great Kai-stern as they both raced out to meet them. "Gimme! Gimme!"
The five Dragonteers and the snoring Pedro wearily stumbled out of their large innertube.
"It-It's good to s-see you, Great Ones…" wheezed Rune.
"Ugh…there has got to be a better way to travel," moaned Bierrez, none too pleased that they had been working for the two planet protectors for nearly two months and still had to use an innertube and a broken stick to travel through the ocean.
"I don't feel so good…" Cesia whined, clutching her stomach.
Completely ignoring the complaints of his Dragonteers, The Great Kai-stern leapt into the innertube, stacked all twelve cases of Lefury in his arms, and took off towards his throne room with a "Woo hoo!"
"Great job, everyone!" beamed the Star Princess. "You've earned a break—"
"Y'mean like a vacation?" Bierrez asked eagerly.
"An all expense paid vacation?" Thatz added.
"Why certainly," the deity smiled. "Feel free to return to your huts and relax until your next mission."
The Dragonteers of Heart and Earth were quickly deflated. They knew that it wouldn't take that long for The Great Kai-stern to get smashed and come up with another conspiracy they had to thwart. Their seasick comrades however, didn't seem all that disappointed with the Star Princess' offer and welcomed the opportunity to nap.
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Location: Kharl's Evil Laboratory of DOOM
"Mua ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" came the villainous voice of a silhouette outlined only by the thunderstorm that raged outside his ridiculously huge window. "I've completed it at last!"
"Completed what, Lord Kharl?" asked apron-clad Garfakcy as he entered the room.
"I've infused some of the vegetables from the garden with a few demon seeds and added some of the souls we had in the back room to create a Super Army that only requires sunlight, water, and human flesh to reign terror on the entire world!" shrieked the alchemist before lapsing into a mad batch of giggles.
"Oh, that's ni—wait, you mean my vegetable garden?" Garfakcy yelled. "I told you to stay out of it!"
"Garfakcy, Garfakcy," Kharl said in sympathy while putting a hand on the boy's shoulder. "In order to conquer the world, some sacrifices must be made."
"Well what are we going to do for dinner, now?"
Kharl didn't seem to hear him.
"Yes…it is a small price to pay for having the entire world in my teacup," the alchemist continued. "Which reminds me, I'm kinda thirsty."
"Lord Kharl that makes no sense…where are you—Stop! Stop! Don't drink that!" cried Garfakcy.
But it was too late. In his quest to quench his thirst, Kharl noticed a small glass full of something that resembled juice and downed it without a second thought. If he would have looked in the book to the left of it, Kharl would have seen the open page that had a Frog Transformation potion recipe.
"Ribbit! Ribbit!"
The tri-color haired assistant could only stare in shock at the disappearing smoke where his master had stood only moments before.
"L-Lord Kharl?"
"Ribbit! Ribbit!" croaked the albino frog. "What, ribbit, happened to me, ribbit?"
"You're a frog, Lord Kharl! You turned into a freaking frog!" his assistant screamed at him.
"…."
For a few uncomfortable seconds Garfakcy held his amphibian master in both hands as they both tried to figure out what the hell went wrong.
"Ooooh! Ribbit! I remember now!" Kharl croaked out happily. "I was making a, ribbit, Frog Transform-o Potion for, ribbit, that annoying Dragon Lord in the west! Ribbit! Guess I forgot all about it, ribbit!"
Garfakcy tried to process what his master had just told him while ignoring his strange froggy laughter. How could you completely forget about…..well it was Kharl we're talking about, so Garfakcy supposed it was possible.
Pulling himself back together, the boy tried to focus on the bigger picture.
"Will it wear off or do you need to make an antidote?"
"Hmm…ribbit. I'm not really sure, ribbit, ribbit."
Garfakcy smacked his forhead with the hand that wasn't holding Kharl.
"Okay, what were you saying earlier about your super vegetable army?" He asked the albino frog.
"Oh, yes, ribbit," the pale amphibian said. "I had planned on planting them on the countryside somewhere so they could grow big and leafy for me."
His assistant just kinda…stared at the albino frog for a moment at the idea of letting some demon-plant hybrid grow on a farm alongside tomatos and broccoli, but nodded for Kharl to go on.
"And then when they've matured, ribbit, they will erupt from the soil and howl a, ribbit, unearthly scream before they attack the nearest humans they can find, ribbit, in the first of many bloody battles to claim back the planet, ribbit!"
"Uh-huh. Tell ya what, Lord Kharl," started Garfakcy. "I'll go plant your…vegetable soldiers and you start looking for a cure for your frog spell. When I get back I'll help you make it."
"Alright, Garfakcy!" beamed the former alchemist gone Frogger. "But do hurry, I've got the oddest craving for fly pancakes."
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Location: Hope Island
"GET MY HORSE! GET MY GUN! THE CAULIFLOWER ARE ATTACKING!"
"Onii-chan, please calm down! I'm sure that there are no cauliflower on the island! Bierrez is allergic to them, remember?"
"THEY'VE, hic, MADE IT PAST THE FIRST DEFENSE AND ARE HEADING TO THE CASTLE! THE CAULIFLOWER HAVE COME FOR WHAT WAS ONCE THEIRS, hic!"
"But onii-chan I don't see any cauliflower here! We don't even live near a castle…unless…Is this a mission for the Dragonteers, onii-chan?"
"The caaaaaaaaaaauliflower…hic."
As The Great Kai-stern collapsed into his six empty packs of Lefury, The Star Princess rushed out to gather the Dragonteers.
On the beach, she found Cesia suntanning and Gil taking a catnap under a palm tree. The Star Princess gently shook him awake and the two headed over to Cesia.
"Onii-chan has a mission for you all, Cesia," she said sweetly.
"Argh. Already?" grumbled the Dragonteer of Wind. "I'm never gonna get a tan at this rate! Even Gil gets a tan and he's from Emphaza for Dusis sakes!"
The tan bishi sweatdropped and the small princess apologized. Coming back from his walk on the beaches, the Dragonteer of Water headed over to the group to see what was up.
"Do we have another mission, Princess?" Rune inquired.
"Yes, Onii-chan just informed me of a new threat," she replied in a worried tone. "Do you know where the others are?"
"That depends," Rune stated. "Do bushes usually have tails?"
"Huh?"
The others looked over towards the bush Rune was pointing to. Spiky dual-colored hair protruded from the top of the shrubbery while a chimpanzee tail swished up and down at the side. Cigarette smoke also lingered in the air nearby.
"Uh…"
"Bierrez, you pervert!" shrieked Cesia, reaching for her bottle of suntan lotion and throwing it at him.
From the bush, the Dragonteer of Heart had been looking down to talk to Pedro.
"Hey do you think they see us, they're all looking over here or—OW!"
Direct hit.
The others headed over to him to inform him of the new mission while he nursed his injury.
"I wonder where Thatz could be?" the Star Princess pondered out loud.
"Feh. Take a guess," snorted Bierrez. "He's probably been sleeping since we got back."
When they arrived at the Dragonteer of Earth's hut, they found him snoozing away just as Bierrez had predicted. Unfortunately, Thatz wouldn't stir despite The Star Princess' gentle urging.
"We'll take care of this, Princess" stated Rune as he and Bierrez each took an end of their lazy comrade's bed.
"…1…"
"…2…"
"…3!"
With that the two flipped over the bed, Dragonteer and all.
"ZZZZZ…OW!" protested the rudely awakened Thatz. "What the hell are you guys doing?"
"We have a mission from The Great Kai-stern. You wouldn't get up," said Rune.
"That didn't mean you had to flip over my damn bed!"
"It's almost lunchtime anyway, so stop complaining."
All objections from the Dragonteer of Earth were immediately put on hold at the promise of food. And now that all the Dragonteers were gathered, it was time to see The Great Kai-stern……passed out in his throne room.
"Hold on, I'll go wake him," said The Star Princess as she pattered over to revive her brother.
"This is the guy we take orders from…..The world really is doomed," Rezzy said glumly.
"He's still a planetary deity, so show him some respect," hissed Rune.
"Right, right…"
"My shildren!" slurred the slammed savior. "I haves a new misshun forsh yuuuuuu!"
"Oh, joy," Bierrez said, but shut up when he felt Rune's deathglare on him.
"Yesh…THE CAULIFLOWER HAVE COME!" The Great Kai-stern proclaimed, flapping his arms about wildly in the air. He struggled to regain his balance before continuing. "Ash foretold in the propheshy, they have returned!"
All but Bierrez sweatdropped. The Dragonteer of Heart paled.
'He knows I'm allergic to those damned things, right?' panicked Rezzy. 'He's just messing with me, right? I mean, he's drunk of his ass, there's now way he could possibly be serious…but what if he is…!'
Bierrez gulped as The Great Kai-stern continued.
"In tha Shmiling Valley, all shall be revealed."
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Location: Farmer Smiley's Bean Patch
"You have got to be kidding me," grumbled Thatz.
Cesia looked at the wooden sign that advertised the farm.
"Nope. This was the closest match that The Star Princess could find for "the Smiling Valley" that The Great Kai-stern was talking about," she assured him.
"But you saw how drunk he was! Why else would he send us on this bogus mission?" Thatz complained before he noticed Bierrez. "Hey man, you don't look so good…is something wrong?"
The poor spiky-haired Dragonteer was very pale, sweating, and trembling slightly. He didn't even take notice of Pedro's cigarette ashes falling on his jacket.
"I'm allergic to cauliflower," he said softly.
"What was that? I didn't quite hear ya," Thatz replied.
"I'm allergic to cauliflower," Bierrez said a little louder.
"Huh? Speak up, Rezzy! This isn't like you," commented Cesia.
"I'M ALLERGIC TO CAULIFLOWER!" he shouted.
Both of his comrades had covered their ears in response.
"Geez, you didn't have to shout," the Dragonteer of Wind snarled. "Besides this is a bean patch, genius."
If that had been anyone other than Cesia, Bierrez would have kicked their head in. However, since it was Cesia that made the remark, the Dragonteer of Heart had settled for continuing his panic attack until Gil and Rune came back from the farm house.
"Well the farmer didn't have too much to say about any suspicious vegetable activity," Rune relayed to the others. "All he really mentioned was weird noises at night and large amounts of ash found near the gardening equipment."
"Ooh, scary!" Thatz said sarcastically. "You really questioned Farmer Smiley about killer cauliflower?"
"Well…I rephrased some of the description."
"Ugh! We're here for the cauliflower, not the boogeyman!" Cesia growled. "Let's just go home!"
"Cauliflower!" shuddered Bierrez.
"I think we should investigate the field first," suggested Gil. "I have a bad feeling about it…"
"Okay," agreed Thatz. "But we should hurry up, the sun's almost down and this thing's seven pages already."
Our brave heroes ventured into the large field near the farmhouse, but weren't able to find anything too out of the ordinary. Some newly dug up soil near the edge of the property and a few random piles of ash littered the ground, but other than that…
"That's it! I've had enough! I wanna go back home!" the wind mistress yelled. "It's already dark out and we haven't found anything!"
"Cesia…" Rune started.
"No! I'm sick of this! Dirt as far as the eye can see! I'm a city girl, dammit!"
"But, Cesia-" he tried again.
"WHAT?"
"What are you stepping on?"
"Huh?"
She looked down and cringed. Under her heel was a strange assortment of copper-colored leaves and a very mushy reddish-brown exterior.
"Ewwwww…" she whined as she reached down to pluck it off her boot.
"Is it…cauliflower?" Bierrez whimpered from his position hiding behind Gil.
"No, I believe that's white, not brown," the Dragonteer of Fire replied sweatdropping.
"Well whatever it is, it's outta here!" Cesia growled as she pulled it out by the leaves, ready to launch it to the next farm over.
"AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
All five Dragonteers instantly covered their ears in pain.
"What the hell was that?" yelled Thatz.
"My ears are still ringing, I can't hear you!" Rune winced.
"CAULIFLOWER!"
"Omigawd…!" cried the shocked Dragonteer of Wind. "I think it was...that vegetable thing…!"
They all slowly turned to look at the freaky veggie by Cesia's feet. (she had dropped it when she heard the scream)
"Hiiiiiiiiii! Hiiiiiiiiiii!" it continued to wail.
"Well that's creepy," the brunette said.
"You bet your pants it is!" laughed a disembodied voice.
Suddenly a whirlwind of ash overtook the Dragonteers. The mysterious laughter continued on from within.
"Now what?" yelled Cesia.
"Please don't let it be cauliflower, Please don't let it be cauliflower, Please don't let it be cauliflower," prayed Bierrez.
"You're pretty big to be aphids," Garfakcy sneered after he appeared from his little ashnado.
"Yeah, and you're pretty short to be a Sunpatch Kid," Thatz retorted. "What are you doing here?"
"Do you really want to know?" chuckled the ash child. "Well, you're just in time to witness my master's ingenious plot to kill off all you stupid humans."
"Go home and see a shrink, kid," the Dragonteer of Earth said. "We're here to stop a cauliflower conspiracy, not play Demons & Dragons."
Beirrez mumbled a barely audible "Cauliflower…!"
"Oh really?" Garfakcy snarled. "Well here's a game I think you like…"
Ash circled around his arms and covered the field as it started to shake.
"It's called Night of the Living Vegetables!"
"AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
The farmland erupted into screams. From beneath its John Deere plowed depths, hundreds of vegetable soldiers infused with demonic powers stirred and emerged. Their first thought: Fooooooood.
"I think they're hungry!" bellowed Garfakcy as he floated safely in the air on an ash cloud.
"Hey, they kinda sound like you, Thatz!" the wind mistress giggled.
"Now is not the time, Cesia!" he yelled back.
The Demonic Veggie Army of Darkness was swarming around the Dragonteers to prevent their escape. Standing deep in a bean patch in the middle of the night, their options were becoming very limited.
A fast-footed turnip mandrake rushed Gil with its leaf-sword extended. The long-haired Dragonteer barely had enough time to bat it away, when its accomplice landed a blow to his leg.
BOINK!
"………." Garfakcy and the Dragonteers sweatdropped.
"Did he just…"
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
Several other vegetable soldiers had started attacking the others with their own leaf swords.
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
"Um, are they supposed to make that sound?" Rune asked Garfakcy.
"I don't know if I should laugh at you or pity you!" Cesia added.
"Cram it! They're just getting warmed up!" shouted an embarrassed Garfakcy.
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
"Yup, any time now…"
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
"……"
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
"Hurry up and kill them, you stupid vegetables!"
Bierrez nearly knocked him out of his little ash cloud with his sudden scream of mortal fear. Climbing up Rezzy's red shorts was, you guessed it, a cauliflower mandrake.
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
"Don't let it kill me! Don't let it kill me! Don't let it kill meeeeeeee!" he cried, rolling around on the ground in vain.
Surprised at his comrade's outburst, Thatz dropped his guard for a second, allowing another veggie soldier to bite his arm. The Dragon Knight of Earth grimaced, and swatted him off.
"Alright! You bastards asked for it! Earth!"
He pointed his ring at the ground beneath the Demonic Veggie Army of Darkness and let the second earthquake of the night rip. Unfortunately, this only caused more of the little monsters to sprout out of the ground and attack.
"Well that worked crappy!" the brunette said with mock cheerfulness.
"I'll take care of this! Wind!" Cesia said gleefully.
A miniature tornado instantly formed on her command and started to sweep up the little beasties with its powerful winds.
"Waaaaaaaah!" cried Garfakcy, caught up in the air currents. "Who are you people?"
"We're the protectors of the planet!" Cesia said with pride.
"We are the Dragonteers!" finished up Thatz. "And no, you can't join us."
"Like I'd want to!" the dual-color haired boy shot back. "You guys suck!"
At that moment, Kharl's Vegetable Army seemed to find their bearings in Cesia's wind and used it to shoot out at the Dragonteers like missles.
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
Another cauliflower soldier landed near Bierrez and Pedro. Being the professional defender of justice that he was, the Dragonteer of Heart curled himself into the fetal position and started babbling "La, la, la, la, la, I can't see you, I can't see you, la, la, la, la, la, la, la…" The beast then turned on Pedro, who was busy smoking up a joint like it ain't anybody's business.
The creature lunged, but Pedro swiftly read its movements and reacted like water. Or however Spike Spiegal phrases it. The chimp snapped the cauliflowers wrist, tripped it, and used the veggie's own force against it, by flipping it to the ground. Enraged, the soldier quickly rose to its feet for a counterattack, but Pedro was ready for it. The last thing that vegetable could remember was the burning sensation of a cigarette butt being driven into its forehead before it breathed its last.
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
"Yeeeeeek! Get them off! Get them off!" Cesia screamed.
Several of the mandrakes had been trying to land a blow from behind, and got tangled in her hair in the process. Gil and Rune quickly pulled their own hair up into ponytails.
"Right!" called Rune. "Water!"
The Dragonteer had succeeded in forcing the monstrosities back, but he also made them much bigger by amplifying them with water.
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
"Way to go, Rune!" Thatz said sarcastically. "You super-sized the damned things!"
"Well you didn't do much better!" the blonde shouted back.
"But at least I didn't--"
"Fire!"
The two bickering Dragonteers turned to watch Gil roast most of their attackers with his ring. The few veggies that did survive the attack were charred and crispy.
"Whoa!" the ex-thief said in awe. "Go Gil!"
"Yes," sneered Garfakcy. "Well done taking down most of the mandrakes, but what will you do now that the survivors have resistance to your little flames?"
Each of Kharl's charbroiled minions started to glow and then rapidly divide, creating a new flame-resistant vegetable soldier. Their numbers had gone up dramatically again.
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
"Hahahahaha!" cackled Garfakcy. "Lord Kharl gave each of his little pets the ability to split up and create a clone of itself faster than you can say mitosis! It's called natural selection, bitches!"
"Man, this kid really doesn't get out much…" Thatz said sweatdropping. "Let our Powers combine! Earth!"
"Fire!" shouted Gil.
"Wind!" Cesia called out.
"Water!" exclaimed Rune.
"H-Heart!" Bierrez yelled, eager to get rid of all of the evil cauliflowers.
"Go Dusis!"
Each beam of light from the Dragonteers rose heavenward, and combined into one giant sphere of light. Garfakcy had to turn away and shield his eyes from the brightness. Once again, the voice that struck fear into the hearts of demons rang out.
"By your Powers combined, I am Captain Dusis!"
Rath, Champion of Justice and Demon Stomping, appeared against the brilliant backdrop of the full moon at its highest point……in his spandex-y Hero Leotard.
"What'd you five get into this time?" he said impatiently. "All this spandex is riding up like a-"
"Captain Dusis! That kid over there is serving an evil alchemist bent on taking over the world with an army of vegetable mutants!" Rune interrupted.
"Wait!" yelled Garfakcy. "I never told you dorks that Lord Kharl was an alchemist!"
"Er…"
Thatz bonked his comrade on the side of the head.
"I told you not to read anything written by Neko! It's bad for your health!"
"Or mental state…" muttered Rath. "Anyway! You guys called me to fight off a bunch of vegetables? What's wrong with you people?"
"So sorry!" the Dragonteer of Earth shouted sarcastically. "We didn't exactly feel like getting eaten by them!"
"Well where's the fun in squashing a bunch of stupid vegetables?" Captain Dusis yelled back.
"Some hero you are!" Cesia growled. "All you think about is fighting demons!"
"Technically they're Half Veggie, Half Demon," Garfakcy put in.
"Half…Demon?" the valiant superhero repeated, his eyes lighting up.
"Yeah, Lord Kharl put a few Demon Seeds in each…why are you looking at them like that?"
"TASTE THE FIST OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, DEMONS!"
BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!
BOOOOOOOOOM!
Nearly a quarter of the Demonic Vegetable Army was blasted to smithereens by Captain Dusis' "Fist of Righteousness." Whatever that was.
"Ah ha ha ha ha! I feel great!" Rath laughed maniacally. "Nothing beats demon hunting under a full moon!"
"Wh-who are you?" the alchemist's assistant said in fear. People flying through the air in bright red Speedos with the inhuman ability to snap a yokai's neck like a Pez dispenser seemed wrong somehow in Garfakcy's mind.
Amongst the fearful BOINK'ing of the leaf swords hitting each other as the mandrakes tried to escape from Captain Dusis, the man slowly turned to face Garfakcy.
"Here we go…" Cesia said cynically once she saw the glint in Rath's eyes.
"I am the people's hopes, their dreams, the one that they turn to when they have no one else to turn to!" boomed the spandex-clad superhero. "I am Fate, unified into one being that can be called upon in times of need!"
"I'm meant your name, freak."
"To my followers, I am the Joy, the Sorrow, the Fury!" Rath continued on. "But to Demons…I bring the Fear, the Pain, and the End!"
"That has got to be the most random Metal Gear Solid reference I've ever heard," remarked the ex-thief.
"So he's a Cobra?" asked Rune, puzzled.
"I am Captain Dusis! Sworn enemy to Demons, villains, and string cheese everywhere!" Rath finally concluded.
"Right, Captain Dusis, gotcha," said the ash boy in a bored tone.
Bored did not sit well with Rath. Unless he was the bored one, which he usually was--he spent most of his time divided into five rings for christsakes. But a bored enemy? In his presence? He'd have to fix that.
"Exploding Tornado Fist Of Justice!" called out Captain Dusis.
A rush of wind encircled the spandex savior's arm. Once it was fast enough to become a cyclone, he rose higher into the air. Pausing for a brief moment to smirk at Garfakcy, Captain Dusis flew down like a rocket and brought the "Justice" to the mandrakes. The second his fist hit its first target, Rath made the whirlwind explode into several powerful air currents to attack the remaining army.
They would never BOINK again.
Chunks of rock and earth the size of cars flew by hitting everything in their path; the Demonic Veggie Army of Darkness was finished. Garfakcy nearly was as well. In the chaos, the tri-color haired boy managed to escape the fate of his henchmen by creating a portal with some of the remaining ash in his bag. This portal took him directly to Kharl's castle in Arinas.
Once the dust settled, Captain Dusis stood victorious.
"Yeah! How d'ya like them apples!" roared the Champion of Justice.
He then noticed his Dragonteers.
Crumpled together in a massive heap under a giant chunk of earth with several stars floating above their heads.
"Ooh, shit. I'm gonna get blamed for this…"
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Location: Kharl's Evil Laboratory of DOOM
"Lord Kharl! Lord Kharl, you will not believe what happened!" exclaimed the short assistant as he burst into the lab. "There were these lame teen protagonists that summoned this grade A superfreak of a hero that wore spandex and talked funny!"
He blinked. Kharl was no where in sight.
"Lord Kharl?"
"Down here," rasped a weak voice.
"LORD KHARL!" shrieked Garfakcy.
The alchemist must have been playing around with potions in his assistant's absence, because he was now an albino fish lying in a small puddle on the floor. Garfakcy quickly put him in a handy soup dish of water.
"Ah, thank you, Garfakcy," smiled Kharl in some eerie fishy way. "I thought I had the potion just right, but I must have added too much Oregano."
"Oh, Lord Kharl," sighed the boy in relief. "What am I going to do with you?"
"Well, I'd appreciate it if you would find a larger bowl for me. It's kinda cramped in here."
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:A/N:
Neko: Yes! One more chapter finished!
Rath: I still had a small part.
Neko: Um, yeah, but I gave you a lot of lines!
Rath: ……
Neko: I'm know, I know! I'll see what I can do next time, 'kay? Big Boss? (falls over laughing)
Rath: You and your stupid video game references.
Thanks for reading!
Next Time: After That Strawberry!
--------Translation Corner-------
Neko: Here's the English translation of the foreign words I used. Let me know if anything's off.
Selkies (Brit.) "Seal Women" Think Ayashi no Ceres' Tennyo legend with mermaid critters. Onii-chan (Jap.) "Big Brother"
Bishounen (Bishi) (Jap.) "Pretty-boy", a good-looking guy, Half the cast of Dragon Knights
Yokai (Jap.) "Demon"
